HOW THE ARCHIVE WORKS
The footnotes
are the point.
The editorial voice is satirical. The factual layer does not get that license.
What this is
This is an independent editorial project about Donald Trump’s public record. The branding and commentary are intentionally sharp. The receipt pages themselves must still identify what happened, when, what the cited source establishes, and what it does not establish.
Sources before summaries
Every file has a date, a stated scope, and links to identifiable original records. Factual paragraphs reference their supporting sources. Government statements establish what that government said or directed; their claims about motives, merits, or effects are not automatically independent findings.
Generated editorial artwork
The museum’s portraits and imaginary scenes are original AI-generated editorial illustrations. Every displayed work is labeled. Dumpster fires, balloon heads, paper tigers, funhouse mirrors, clown cars, circular trains, paper crowns, mechanical megaphones, and gold desks are visual metaphors, not photographs of real events or evidence of an allegation. The factual receipt pages do not use these images as proof.
Satire is not evidence
A joke, headline, section name, or editorial tag is commentary. It cannot substitute for a quotation, record, finding, or outcome. Invented quotations and unlabeled fabrications do not belong in the archive.
Separate the questions
What a law says, how it was implemented, and what effects it had are different questions. A historical snapshot is not current legal advice. Event dates and source-check dates appear separately.
No ballot instructions
The site does not tell readers how to vote and does not publish election predictions. The archive is built so readers can inspect the cited material themselves.
Corrections stay visible
Material corrections must be dated in the affected file. A broken link is not proof a claim is false, and a working link is not proof a summary is accurate. See the corrections process.
Sharing should not strip the context
Share cards include an event date and a stable link to the complete file. The joke can travel; the source link travels with it.
Content and publishing
New receipts enter through the reviewed ingestion pipeline. Technical tests check structure, citations, dates, provenance, and rendering; they do not replace actual source inspection.